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In 1985 Disney released Return to OZ a sequel to The Wizard of OZ. While being more true to the original novels,it was considered not friendly for children in the beginning of the movie Dorothy is receiving electroshock therapy, one reviewer said "It's bleak, creepy, and occasionally terrifying"

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Electroshock Therapy as demonised by One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is actually a valid, effective and humane treatment for a variety of brain conditions and still used to this day

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1. As a teenager, Lou Reed's parents made him undergo electroshock therapy 3 times a week in an attempt to cure him of his bisexuality

2. Electroshock therapy is still used today and on the rise in the UK

3. 1000% is a sarcastic phrase meaning "insincere exaggeration" following 1972 Democrat candidate George McGovern's assertion he was 1000% behind his VP candidate. He dropped him few weeks later due to revelations of electroshock therapy

4. In the early 20th century some Illinois hospitals administered electroshock therapy to patients with mental illnesses on a daily basis.

5. Electroshock therapy is still used in psychiatry today to treat major depressive disorder, mania and catatonia

6. The Mormon university, BYU, used to try to "cure" homosexuals using electroshock therapy.

7. Roky Erickson is a musician who wrote some of his best horror/sci-fi rock with the bassist of CCR after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and undergoing electroshock therapy rather than face a 10 year jail sentence for possession of a single joint.

8. Paulo Coehlo's parents tried to stop him from becoming a writer by electroshock therapy. Put him in an asylum 3 times

9. Stevie Wright, lead singer of The Easybeats (Friday on my mind), suffered brain damage from induced-coma and electroshock therapy in the medical fraternities sanctioned efforts to help his drug addiction

10. Our next Vice President believes you can turn gay people straight with repeated high dose electroshock therapy.